It was so salt, so hard, and so tough, that only a sailor's palate can possibly enjoy it.

Instead of soup, vegetables, and pudding, we had pearl-barley boiled in water, without salt or butter; to which treacle and vinegar was added at the dinner-table.

All the others considered this a delicacy, and marvelled at my depraved taste when I declared it to be unpalatable.
The second day brought a piece of bacon, boiled in sea-water, with the barley repeated.

On the third we had cod-fish with peas.

Although the latter were boiled hard and without butter, they were the most eatable of all the dishes.